Selected Refereed Papers on Cloud Systems by CCP Scientists

Moncrieff, M. W.

1981

A Theory of Organized Steady Convection and its Transport Properties. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 107, 29-50.

Thorpe, A. J., M. J. Miller, and Moncrieff, M. W.

1982

Two-dimensional Convection in Non-constant Shear:A Model of Mid-latitude Squall Lines. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 108, 739-762.

Dudhia, J., and Moncrieff, M. W.

1987

A Numerical Simulation of Quasi-Stationary Tropical Convective Bands. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 113, 929-967.

Grabowski, W. W.

1988

On the bulk parameterization of snow and its application to the quantitative studies of precipitation growth, Pure Appl. Geophys., 127, 79-92.

Zhang, D.L, Hsie, E.Y., and Moncrieff, M. W.

1988

A comparison of explicit and implicit predictions of convective and stratiform precipitating weather systems with a mesoscale numerical model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 114, 31-60. 7.

Lafore, J-P. and Moncrieff, M. W.

1989

A numerical investigation of the scale interaction between a tropical squall line and its environment. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 46, 521-544.

Sui, C.-H., M.-D. Cheng, X. Wu and M. Yanai

1989

Cumulus ensemble effects on the large--scale vorticity and momentum fields of GATE. Part II:Parameterization. J. Atmos.Sci. 46, 1609-1629.

Gao, K., D-L. Zhang, M. W. Moncrieff and H.-R. Cho

1990

Mesoscale momentum budget in a mid-latitude squall line:A numerical case study. Monthly Weather Review, 118, 1011-1028.

Grabowski, W. W. and P. K. Smolarkiewicz

1990

Monotone definite difference approximations to the advection-condensation problem, Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, 2082-2097.

Moncrieff, M. W.

1990

Influence of atmospheric deep convection on boundary layer and surface processes. International TOGA Scientific Conference Proceedings: Invited Papers, WCRP 43, 145-151.

Smolarkiewicz, P. K. and W. W. Grabowski

1990

The multidimensional positive definite advection transport algorithm: Nonoscillatory option, J. Comput. Phys., 86, 355(375).

Moncrieff, M. W.

1992

Organized convective systems: Archetypal models, mass and momentum flux theory, and parametrization. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 118, 819-850.

Wu, X.

1992

Effects of mesoscale convective organization and vertical wind shear on the cumulus-environment interaction. Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024, 221 pp.

Brenguier, J-L. and W. W. Grabowski

1993

Cumulus entrainment and cloud droplet spectra: A numerical model within a two-dimensional dynamical framework. J. Atmos. Sci., 50, 120(136).

GEWEX Cloud System Science Team (A. Betts, K. A. Browning, P. R. Jonas, R. Kershaw, M. Manton, P.J. Mason, M. Miller, M. W. Moncrieff, H. Sundqvist, W. K. Tao, and M. Tiedtke)

1993

The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 73, 387-399.

Grabowski, W. W.

1993

Cumulus entrainment, fine-scale mixing and buoyancy reversal. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 119, 935-956.

Grabowski, W. W., and H. Pawlowska

1993

Entrainment and mixing in clouds: the Paluch mixing diagram revisited. J. Appl. Meteor., 32, 1767-1773.

LeMone, M. A., and M. W. Moncrieff

1993

Momentum and mass transport by convective bands: Comparisons of highly idealized dynamical models to observations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 51, 281-305.

Wu, X.

1993

Effects of cumulus ensemble and mesoscale stratiform clouds in midlatitude convective systems. J. Atmos.Sci. 50, 2496-2518.

Wu, X.

1994

Diagnostic and semiprognostic studies of cumulus effects in the presence of mesoscale circulations. \mwr 122, 652-670.

Wu, X., and M. Yanai

1994

Effects of vertical wind shear on the cumulus transport of momentum:Observations and parameterization. J. Atmos.Sci. 51, 1640-1660.

Grabowski, W. W.

1995

Entrainment and mixing in buoyancy reversing convection with applications to cloud-top entrainment instability. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 121, 231-253.

Moncrieff, M. W.

1995

Mesoscale convection from a large-scale perspective. Atmospheric Research, 35, 87-112.

Wu, X, and M. W. Moncrieff

1995

Collective effects of organized convection as derived from a nested cloud-resolving model and their approximation in general circulation models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 53, 1477-1495.

Yano, J. I., J. C. McWilliams, M. W. Moncrieff, and K. A. Emanuel

1995

Hierarchical tropical cloud systems in an analog shallow-water model. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 52, 1724-1742.

Grabowski, W. W. and P. K. Smolarkiewicz

1996

On two-time-level semi-Lagrangian modeling of precipitating clouds. Mon. Wea. Rev. 124, 487-497.

Grabowski, W. W., M. W. Moncrieff, and J. T. Kiehl

1996

Long-term behavior of precipitating tropical cloud systems: A numerical study. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 122, 1019-1042.

Grabowski, W. W., X. Wu, and M. W. Moncrieff

1996

Cloud resolving modeling of tropical cloud systems during Phase III of GATE. Part I: Two-dimensional experiments. J. Atmos. Sci. 53, 3684-3709.

Liu, C.-H., and M. W. Moncrieff

1996

A numerical study of the effects of ambient flow and shear on density currents. Mon. Wea. Rev., 124, 2282-2303.

Liu, C.-H., and M. W. Moncrieff

1996

An analytical study of density currents in sheared, stratified fluids including the effects of latent heating. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 3303-3312.

Liu, C.-H., and M. W. Moncrieff

1996

Mass and momentum transports by organized convection: Effects of shear and buoyancy. J. Atmos. Sci., 53, 964-979.

Moncrieff, M. W., S. K. Krueger, D. Gregory, J-L Redelsperger, W-K Tao

1996

Objectives of the GCSS Working Group 4:Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, 831-845.

Wu, X., and M. W. Moncrieff

1996

Collective effects of organized convection and their approximation in general circulation models. J. Atmos.Sci. 53, 1477-1495.

Yano, J. I., J. McWilliams and M. W. Moncrieff

1996

Fractality in Idealized simulations of large-scale tropical cloud systems. Monthly Weather Review, 124, 838-848

Liu, C.-H., M. W. Moncrieff, and E. J. Zipser

1997

Dynamical influence of microphysics in tropical squall lines: A numerical study. Mon. Wea. Rev., 125, 2193-2210.

Moncrieff, M. W.

1997

Momentum transport by organized convection. NATO Advanced Study Series: C. The Physics and Parameterization of Moist Atmospheric Convection (R. Smith, Ed.), Klumer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, 231-253.

Moncrieff, M. W. and E. Klinker

1997

Mesoscale cloud systems in the tropical western Pacific as a process in general circulation models. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 123, 805-828.

Moncrieff, M. W., S. K. Kreuger, D. Gregory, J.-L. Redelsperger, and W.-K. Tao

1997

Objectives of the GCSS Working Group on Precipitating Convective Cloud Systems. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 78, 831-845.

Vaillancourt, P. A., M. K. Yau, and W. W. Grabowski

1997

Upshear and downshear evolution of cloud structure and cloud properties. J. Atmos. Sci. 54, 1203-1217.

Grabowski, W. W.

1998

Toward cloud resolving modeling of large-scale tropical circulations: A simple cloud microphysics parameterization. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3283-3298.

Grabowski, W. W., X. Wu, M. W. Moncrieff, and W. D. Hall

1998

Cloud-resolving modeling of tropical cloud systems during Phase III of GATE. Part II: Effects of resolution and the third spatial dimension. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 3264-3282.

Kestin, T. S., D. J. Karoly, J.-I. Yano, and N. A. Rayner

1998

Time-frequency variability of ENSO and stochastic simulations, J. Climate, 11, 2258--2272.

Liu, C.-H., and M. W. Moncrieff

1998

A numerical study of the diurnal cycle of tropical oceanic convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 2329-2344.

Moncrieff, M. W., and W.-K. Tao

1998

Cloud resolving modelling, Global Water and Energy Cycles, Cambridge University Press, Browning and Gurney (Eds.), 15pp.

Szumowski, M. J., W. W. Grabowski, and H. T. Ochs

1998

Simple two-dimensional kinematic framework designed to test warm rain microphysical models. Atmos. Res). 45, 299-326.

Wu, X., W. W. Grabowski, and M. W. Moncrieff

1998

Long-term behavior of cloud systems in TOGA COARE and their interactions with radiative and surface processes). Part I: Two-dimensional modeling study. J. Atmos. Sci. 55, 2693-2714.

Yano, J.-I. and M. W. Moncrieff

1998

The impact of mesoscale momentum transport on the large-scale tropical circulation: A linear analysis, J. Atmos. Sci., 55, 1038--1050.

Yano, J.-I., M. W. Moncrieff, and J. C. McWilliams

1998

Linear stability and single-column analysis of several cumulus parameterization categories in a shallow-water model. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 124, 983-1005.

Grabowski, W. W.

1999

A parameterization of cloud microphysics for long-term cloud-resolving modeling of tropical convection. Atmos. Res., 52, 17-41.

Grabowski, W. W., and P. K. Smolarkiewicz

1999

CRCP: A Cloud Resolving Convection Parameterization for Modeling the Tropical Convecting Atmosphere. Physica D, 133, 171(178). (Special Issue: Predictability: Quantifying Uncertainty in Models of Complex Phenomena, 18th Annual Conference of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos, NM, USA, 11-15 May 1998).

Grabowski, W. W., and P. Vaillancourt

1999

Comments on "Preferential concentration of cloud droplets by turbulence: effects on the early evolution of cumulus cloud droplet spectra" by Shaw et al. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 1433-1436.

Grabowski, W. W., X. Wu, and M. W. Moncrieff

1999

Cloud resolving modeling of tropical cloud systems during Phase III of GATE. Part III: Effects of microphysical parameterizations. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 2384-2402.

Liu, C., M. W. Moncrieff, and W. W. Grabowski

1999

Hierarchical modeling of tropical convective systems using resolved and parameterized approaches. Quart. J. Roy). Met. Soc. (submitted)

Mapes, B., and X. Wu

1999

Convective momentum transport in GATE Phase III week-long 2D and 3D cloud-resolving model simulations. J. Atmos.Sci. submitted.

Moncrieff, M. W. and C.-H. Liu

1999

Convection initiation by density currents: Role of convergence, shear and dynamical organization. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, 2455-2464.

Naveau, P., M. W. Moncrieff, J.-I. Yano, and X. Wu

1999

Exploratory statistical analysis of tropical oceanic convection using discrete wavelet transforms. in Studies in the Atmospheric Sciences (Eds. L. M. Berliner, D. Nychka, and T. Hoar), Springer--Verlag, 121--136.

Tao, W.-K., J. Simpson, C.-H. Sui, C.-L. Shie, B. Zhou, K.M. Lau and M. W. Moncrieff

1999

On Equilibrium (Climate) States Simulated by Cloud-resolving Models. J. Atmos. Sci.., 56, 3128-3139.

Vaillancourt, P., M. K. Yau, and W. W. Grabowski

1999

Microscopic approach to cloud droplet growth by condensation. Part I: Model description and results without turbulence. J. Atmos. Sci. (submitted)

Wu, X.

1999

Comparison of two convection parameterization schemes in the single-column model of the NCAR CCM3. J. Geophys. Res. submitted.

Wu, X. and M. W. Moncrieff

1999

Effects of sea surface temperature and large-scale dynamics on the thermodynamic equilibrium state and convection over the tropical western Pacific. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 6093-6100.

Wu, X., and M. A. LeMone

1999

Fine structure of cloud patterns within the intraseasonal oscillation during TOGA COARE. Mon. Wea. Rev. in press.

Wu, X., M. W. Moncrieff, and K. A. Emanuel

1999

Evaluation of large-scale forcing during TOGA COARE for cloud-resolving models and single-column models. J. Atmos.Sci. submitted.

Wu, X., W. D. Hall, W. W. Grabowski, M. W. Moncrieff, W. D. Collins, and J. T. Kiehl

1999

Long-term behavior of cloud systems in TOGA COARE and their interactions with radiative and surface processes. Part II: Effects of cloud microphysics on cloud-radiation interaction. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3177-3195.

Yano, J.-I.

1999

Scale--separation and quasi-equilibrium principles in Arakawa and Schubert's cumulus parameterization. J. Atmos. Sci., 56, 3821--3823.

Yano, J.-I., M. W. Moncrieff, and X. Wu

1999

Wavelet Analysis of Simulated Tropical Convective Cloud Systems Part II:Decomposition of Convective and Meso-- Scales. submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.

Yano, J.-I., M. W. Moncrieff, X. Wu, and M. Yamada

1999

Wavelet Analysis of Simulated Tropical Convective Cloud Systems Part I:Basic Analysis. submitted to J. Atmos. Sci.

Yano, J.-I., M. W. Moncrieff, X. Wu, and M. Yamada

1999

Wavelet decomposition of the spatial structure associated with organized convective cloud systems. J. Atmos.Sci. submitted.

Yano, J.-I., W. W. Grabowski, G. L. Roff, and B. E. Mapes

1999

Asymptotic approaches to convective quasi--equilibrium. accepted to \qj

Grabowski, W. W.

2000

Cloud microphysics and the tropical climate: cloud-resolving model perspective. J. Climate (in press)

Grabowski, W. W.

2000

Dynamics of cumulus entrainment. Geophysical and Astrophysical Convection, Edited by R. Kerr and P. Fox (in press)).

Grabowski, W. W., J.-I. Yano, and M. W. Moncrieff

2000

Cloud-resolving modeling of tropical circulations driven by large-scale SST gradients. J. Atmos. Sci. (in press)

Grabowski, W. W., J.-I. Yano, and M. W. Moncrieff

2000

Idealized modeling of tropical circulations driven by large--scale SST gradients. J. Atmos. Sci., in press.

Grubisic, V. and M. W. Moncrieff

2000

Parameterization of convective momentum transport in highly baroclinic conditions. J. Atmos. Sci.., In Press.

Liu, C., M. W. Moncrieff, and W. W. Grabowski

2000

Explicit and parameterized realizations of convective cloud systems in TOGA COARE. Mon. Wea. Rev. (submitted)

Liu, C.-H., and M. W. Moncrieff

2000

Simulated density currents in stratified environments. Mon. Wea. Rev., 127, in press.

Liu, C.-H., M. W. Moncrieff, and W. W. Grabowski

2000

Explicit and parameterized realizations of convective cloud systems in TOGA COARE. Mon. Wea. Rev., submitted.

Liu, C.-H., M. W. Moncrieff, and W. W. Grabowski

2000

Hierarchical modeling of tropical convective systems with explicit and parameterized approaches. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., submitted.

Yano, J.-I., W. W. Grabowski, G. L. Roff, and B. E. Mapes

2000

Asymptotic approaches to convective quasi-equilibrium. Quart. J. Roy. Met. Soc., (in press)